Zoonotic Infection

Health officials have traced a series of Salmonella outbreaks to backyard poultry.

Researchers identified a new canine-feline alphacoronavirus in a Malaysian child with pneumonia.

On Dec. 31, 2019, a message from the local health authority indicated that most patients with a new viral disease were epidemiologically linked to the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China.

Researchers reported the first known case of human Dracunculus worm infection in Vietnam. The case was caused by an unknown species of worm that was determined not to be the species that causes dracunculiasis, or Guinea worm disease.

I had veterinary virologists as parents. My dad studied and worked on rabies for his PhD, and my mother was a pioneer in India on buffalopox virus, which is very closely related to cowpox and smallpox, also earning her PhD.

Toxoplasma gondii infection appeared to increase the risk for glioma in adults, according to study results published in International Journal of Cancer.

Trichinellosis is a parasitic infection occurring in people who eat meat-eating mammals. It is reported to cause about 10,000 infections in humans worldwide each year.

Rat-bite fever occurs rarely in the United States, but is more prominent in children compared with other populations when it does occur, according to findings published in in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Bats and bat hunters in northeast India carry reactive antibodies to Ebola and Marburg viruses, indicating that the filoviruses circulate among local bats and are possibly transmitted to humans, according to study findings published today in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Between 2002 and 2017, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services identified three human cases of tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis that were linked to diseased free-ranging deer, researchers reported in MMWR.